It’s June! It’s p*ssing down and freezing cold.
Let’s have some summer songs…
Summer!!
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http://youtu.be/8c14buJtYSs
This reminds me of Sunday lunchtimes in The Royal Charter in Kingston Upon Thames where the resident DJ just played what he liked. He had impeccable taste.
This always makes me think of summer:
https://youtu.be/ngqGjSSczM4
A couple from the antipodes…
The late Billy Thorpe with “It’s Almost Summer”
…and Richard Clapton with “Capricorn Dancer”
The late and extremely great John Hartford.
Yesterday was the first day of winter down here, by the way.
The wistful side of the season….
Rainy and very unpredictable here in Stockholm. We need more sunshine.
Fantasists…….
Two tracks inextricably linked in my mind, both with each other and with summer.
Here’s a fine slice of late 80s Fairport – recorded live on UK daytime TV.
A nice, wistful vocal from Simon Nicol.
From the album “Red and Gold” – “Summer Before the War”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXobmVCVoSM
I love Blyth Power. It’s alright, I don’t expect you to, but if a bunch of trainspotters who sound like Crass and Steeleye Span putting on an amateur musical in the school hall are your thing, then enjoy.
Intrinsically linked to the first warm day of the year for me….
https://youtu.be/8c14buJtYSs
Ahem!!!
D’oh.
Good choice mind!
Ah, the sweet melancholy of remembering a Summer love a long time ago
Painfully obvious but a summer classic.
And while we’re in Isleyville, a friend send me this joyous gem earlier in the week: Caravan of Love.
Guaranteed feelgood music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSrRdOMpOn0
Here’s the Swedish national anthem.
For a season that lasts about two weeks, the Swedes have rather a lot of songs about summer.
“To be sung of a summer night on the water”, so sang Kate of Delius. So here’s the original item.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9rS_8BqcK4
Off to see these in Manchester – forlornly hoping for a bit of sun!
A thread of summer songs and no sign of this one? Consider the omission corrected.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m648v4s5sFc
Or was it this one?
Bet y’all wanted to know quite what the Butthole Surfers soundlike.
(A: nowt special)
To complete the triptych, Summer In the City by Regina Spektor
“Summer in the City means cleavage, cleavage cleavage”
Not at the moment – more like a nice woolly cardigan with all the buttons done up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqU2d_ruGlw
Handsome young Colin H posted this a few weeks ago. I thought it was marvelous. Still do, in fact. And I love the surprise cameo at the end of the video.
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Summer Wine
T.Rex – Celebrate Summer
Marianne Faithfull – Summer Nights
Dodgy – Staying Out For The Summer
The Style Council “Long Hot Summer” (and it’s a GREAT video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmFzGTxod4
(Caravan – In The Land Of Grey And Pink)
Sorry, can’t post at the moment but the Beach Boys “All Summer Long” would be my choice.
A rather wonderful Norwegian band Highasakite:,Indian Summer.
http://youtu.be/7pwTmu2-YGU
A Spanish celebration of ice cereal from Papa Topo.
Strangely optimistic song about wasting a summer from B and S,